Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-14
EXTRAORDINARY WORD PLAY.
A siRgle Sentences Containing the Names OF
Saventy-Niae PapersGnd Magazines.


A Single Sentences Containing the Names of
SoVenty-Nine Papers0nd Magazines.
New York Tribune: at recent meet
ing Of club Of literary people in this city
the amusement OF the evening was max
ing puns. A prize Of handsome set of
Chambers Encyclopedia was offered to
the one who should get into single sen.
tence the greatest number OF names Of New
York publications, the sentence to make
perfect sense and to contain no reference
90 the publications named. The
members worked diligently all the
evening, ard the prize was won
by Mrs. Mray E. Bryan, assistant editor
OF George Munro's publications and au-
thor of "Madch," esKildee" and other
novels. She far outs:ripped the other
competitors and achieved the extraor-
binary fest of getting into one har-
moaious sentence play upon the names
Of seventY-nine New York papers, weekly
journals and magazines. This bit of
word-pley purports to give an account
Of 9 startling message from the world
OF the Occult. Here it is:
Times more dreadful than eye has yet
been Witness 70 or Graphic art portrayed
are now at hand, to Judge from Tele-
gram that came at late Hour yesterday
through mystic Messenger, more swift
of Dispstch than any Express train or
Homing Pigeon or even Mercury-the
winged Herald Of the Olympus-ssying
that Tribune of memorable Power had
decreed from celestial Forum that the
Sun should be eclipsed, each Star should
fall. the World be wrapped in
8 Stroud of darkness, the wind,
"thst grand old HRrper,n be
stilled, and life be no more; which awful
News, carried Post haste through Town
and Country, has spread like Wild Fire
through Two Hemispheres, and though
Public Opinion is divided as to its Truth,
and it is sneered at by many Critic, yet
maay m8n in this Christian Nation has
made Chronicle of the prophesied catas-
trophe in his Journal during Leisure
Hour, and it is upon'this Saturday Night,
in these Golden Days of q Century
that marks the highest Epoch of
civilization, the chief of Town
Topics, silencing all It'd Bits of Our
Society gossip, while it is held under
excited Review by every Citizen at
Church, at Home and Abroad, at the So
looms, the Bazaar, the Theatre, and On the
Street Railway or the Produce Exchange,
over his wine, his counter or his Ledger,
or with his Fireside Companion or
Friendly Visitor in his Study, being dis
cussed alike by the Churchman and the
Evangelist and the gay member of the
Sporting World, or Of the Array and Navy;
by the Advocate Of orthodox faith and the
independent thinker; the Metropolitan,
that Mirror of Fashion, and simple
Angler and Agriculturist beside the For
est and Stream; By the Machinist, tie
Builder end the Brewer, as by the Banker
and the Stakeholder; by the Cosmppoli-
tan forever taking az Outing, or the b.
raj New Yorker, content with Eettage
snd Farm; by the non adTertisinz d en-
chant, VINO fails, and the CommereIslsAd
Vertiser, who succeeds; by the Old 8ad
the Young People, even the Little Ores
in short, by every ProgresIye America4
who is Wide Awake to ths Astere5ts &c
the human Fraternity. 81